Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Hallie Flanagan

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Hallie Flanagan Davis was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

American - Producer | August 27, 1890 - June 23, 1969

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Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

Hallie Flanagan

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

Hallie Flanagan

Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.

Hallie Flanagan

[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.

Hallie Flanagan

Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.

Hallie Flanagan

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

Hallie Flanagan

Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.

Hallie Flanagan

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Hallie Flanagan

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